Hospital Rooms is an arts and mental health charity that believes in the enduring power of the arts to instill value, dignity and wellbeing in people. Alistair Gentry speaks to Curator Niamh White about how the project enables access to art and culture for people using secure and locked mental health services.
Alistair Gentry offers guidance on what support is available for artists and others with mental health problems.
So it’s September, one of the months that is not so active in the north of England for exhibitions and sales (well not where I’m based). My last show was a success and I’m in the planning stages of the […]
On the 9th of November I will be running an event Let’s Talk about the Weather is the first event taking place under the Emotional Weather Bureau umbrella, created by Aidan Moesby. The event will bring together artists, writers, musicians, […]
‘New Magical Realism’ curated by Micha Eden Erdész Supported by UCC and City of Munich 7 – 30 September 2019, The Minories Galleries, Colchester, GB Atwood’s The Robber Bride (1993) tasks Zenia’s character with narrating the wider subversive Magical forces […]
This week’s selection includes exhibitions in Cardiff, Kent, Cornwall and Nottingham – all taken from our busy Events section featuring shows and events posted by a-n members.
With the end of the Mythomania project upon me (it finishes today). I’ve decided to make this the last official post. I’d hoped to chronicle much more of the project, including the production of the final work – but time […]
It’s less of a blog today and more of a collection of thoughts in relation to some of my recent works. Bursts of colour, bright scattered patterns, abstract shapes, the collision of photography, collage and paint. This connects to that, […]
Despite the slight muddle with the technician not realising how much help I needed the show is almost hung despite getting muddled myself with the numbering in places! Tweaking tomorrow….
I’m a brand new member
Although much of the new work I created for MYTHOMANIA was fabric-based (as described in my previous posts) I also created one of my more familiar large-scale sculptures for the exhibition. The curators had asked me to create a big […]
After my helmet sculpture was finished, I felt more confident about building more ‘soft sculpture’ designs. The next piece I created was a large eagle-shaped artwork. Unlike the helmet, which only had a few embroidered patches on its surface, the […]
Function/Error is a performative experiment on the impossibility of completing a task due to the health and safety regulations on ladder usage. The impractical safety rules forced a humorous response that involves the performance of a useless action.
the dog makes itself comfy at my feet as i ponder how to begin this post. i’m acutely aware that in keeping at least one post per month going in this blog i’ve made two posts without words. i’ve spent […]
